déviance
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,404
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
déviance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Transgression des normes sociales en vigueur. Pronounced \de.vjɑ̃s\. Often confused with devine and device.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déviance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.vjɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for déviance is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.vjɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,404 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for déviance, with forms such as "ddéviance", "deviance", and "dvéiance". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "devine", "device", "devienne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is déviance, spelled D-É-V-I-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Transgression des normes sociales en vigueur.
- 2Comportement, conduite qui manifeste cette transgression.
- 3Écart statistique.
- 4Au sens strict, la déviance est définie à partir de la vraisemblance dans le cas d’un modèle paramétrique. Soit un ensemble de n observations et un modèle avec les paramètres β₀, β₁..βₙ ; alors L(β₀) est la vraisemblance du modèle n’utilisant que le paramètre β₀, tandis que L(βₙ) est la vraisemblance du modèle complètement paramétrisé (L(βₙ) = 1 parce que le modèle est parfaitement ajusté). La déviance pour k paramètres est D(βₖ) = –2[log L(βₖ) – log L(βₙ)] = log [L(βₙ)/ L(βₖ)]² = –2 log L(βₖ).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddéviance,deviance,dvéiance,déivance,dévaince,déviacne,déviancce,dévianec,déviannce,dévinace,dévviance,édviance
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for déviance
Misspelling Variants of "déviance"
Frequency rank: #43,404 in French
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